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Use of Time Series Models for Multi-Stream Surveillance
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Surveillance of individual data streams is a well-accepted approach to monitor community incidence of infectious diseases such as influenza, and to enable timely detection of outbreaks so that control measures can be applied.… read more… and any 3 aberrations within a 2-week period (M5). We com- pared the performance of alerts generated by the … East data, which outperformed the aggregate GP data. Con- versely, for GOPC data, the performance of alerts … Infect Dis. 2008; 14(7):1154-7. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/14/7/1154.htm Further Information: … -
Open Source Syndromic Surveillance Transport Tool
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ISDS, in cooperation with the Community for Population and Public Health Measures (COPHM), is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar to be held on June 13th. The purpose of this webinar is to inform ISDS members, EHR technology developers, and… read more… support MU Stage 2 attestation. Further Information q www.cophm.org q Kieran Dunne – Kieran.Dunne@agilex.com q ISDS Recommendations § http://www.syndromic.org/uploads/files/ … -
Student Rotation in a Veterinary Teaching Hospital as a Potential Surveillance Confounder
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Identifying potential biases and confounders that may affect data quality is an important consideration when evaluating surveillance systems. Having the benefit of predictable temporal trends is a key requirement to improve upon… read more… Further Information: Loren Shaffer, loren.shaffer@hmsinc.com www.hmsinc.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;4:264 … -
Real-Time Surveillance: Cutting-Edge Technology in NH
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The Automated Hospital Emergency Department Data (AHEDD) System was designed to detect early indicators of bioterrorism and naturally occurring health risks. Initial development includes real-time data collection from four pilot hospitals, an… read more… as investiga- tion by either syndrome or symptom (a chief com- plaint text field value). In comparing the manual sys- … Corpo- ration. Retrieved June 27, 2006, from http://www.stchome.com/downloads/Handouts/Zhang%20Method ology.pdf. Further … -
Executive Summary of the ISDS DTRA Consultancy Project 2014-2017
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The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) fills the need for a practical forum and coordinating mechanism for collaboration among subject matter experts (SMEs) from stakeholder groups that may normally not interact but who, when… read more… these consultancies are available on the ISDS website at www.healthsurveillance.org. These consultancies generated … available at: https://knowledge- repository.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/Asyndromic%20Cluster%20Detection%20Report.FINAL_ … on the website. • National Library of Medicine. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantTrainInstitute.html This program is … -
Exploring the Value of Learned Representations for Automated Syndromic Definitions
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Comprehensive medical syndrome definitions are critical for outbreak investigation, disease trend monitoring, and public health surveillance. However, because current definitions are based on keyword string-matching, they may miss important… read more… representations capture information about disease co-occurrence that would typically require SME involvement … representations capture information about disease co-occurrence that would typically require SME involvement … -
Using NC DETECT for Comprehensive Morbidity Surveillance on Poisoning and Overdose
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A retrospective analysis of emergency department data in NC for drug and opioid overdoses has been explained previously [1]. We built on this initial work to develop new poisoning and surveillance reports to facilitate near real time surveillance by… read more… time and over 75% of ED visits receive at least one ICD-9-CM final diagnosis code within two weeks of the initial … time and over 75% of ED visits receive at least one ICD-9-CM final diagnosis code within two weeks of the initial … -
Development and Evaluation of a Data-adaptive Algorithm for Univariate Temporal Biosurveillance Data
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Numerous recent papers have evaluated algorithms for biosurveillance anomaly detection. Common essential problems in the disparate, evolving data environment include trends, day-of-week effects, and other systematic behavior.… read more… 2007, Statistics in Medicine, available at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- bin/fulltext/114131913/PDFSTART. 2. Brillman JC, …